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Flo Rida Has Spellbound Critics Wondering Where He Gets It

Flo Rida Has Spellbound Critics Wondering Where He Gets It
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Hip-hop heavyweight Flo Rida continues to dazzle the music world with his unique blend of creative parasitism and unmitigated gall as Good Feeling, his sample of a Pretty Lights sample-inspired sample of an Etta James standard by Swedish DJ/mixer Avicci, began a rapid ascent of the Billboard charts this week.

"Nobody absconds with and remarkets another artist's plundering of yet another artist's unoriginal work quite like Flo Rida," remarked one admiring industry insider. Said another source, "After Right Round, we all thought he was just your basic one-dimensional pilferer of existing derivative material" -- a reference to Flo Rida's more traditional appropriation of the 1985 classic, You Spin Me Round (Like a Record) by Dead or Alive. "I guess he showed us."

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